Sarojini Varadappan

Those sort of, um, totally enriched my perspective and I think were one of the highlights of actually doing the research in the first place.

Um, so let me tell you, I, uh, interviewed, um, there was a long-standing AIWC, uh, leader and member called Sarojini Varadappan, who, born in 1921, who I was able to interview, who'd been very involved in social welfare work, developmental initiatives for women and children.

Um, I'd also had a chance to interview, uh, Sala Sharma, who had been involved as a kind of a teenager in sort of early, uh, communist youth activities, and then was a long-standing member of the National Federation of Indian Women, and also a local councilor for the Communist Party of India in Delhi.

So again, very interesting and ex- you know, th- these two women, different examples of both doing, uh, women's, um, empowerment work, but taking different strategies.